India to allow MVNO for 3G services as well; new policy soon

The DoT while formulating the final Information Memorandum (IM) for 3G and BWA spectrum auction is considering to come out with an altogether new MVNO policy in the near future. The new MVNO policy will take into consideration both 2G as well as 3G spectrum said a DoT official.


“The MVNO policy will be notified soon and that the policy will be applicable for both 2G and 3G spectrum,” said a DoT official.
Earlier this year in February, the DoT had allowed MVNO to enter India. Pan-India licence fee was fixed at Rs 85 crore.
But there might be some changes now in wake of allowing MVNO for 3G domain as well.
TRAI had some major difference of opinion with DoT over the number of MVNOs to be allowed per operator. TRAI was strongly in favour of allowing only one MVNO per operator. But the DoT was against this move.